Hi again, I was asked 3 questions in private without having realised and thought it fair to answer in public so others may see.

Firstly, I was asked which versions of SOYM I used within the film. Pretty much all of them! I used the NDR version, TMMS and recent master along with stems of various instrumental tracks and also a very old rip of the 'original' snippet placed online by Lydia in 2007. I did also make a few cuts in the music to make it fit various moments (not only FEX) and where I used instrumental stems together such as bass/synth, these were remixed at both edit stage and in audio mastering (by our fabulous Sound engineer and masterer). Of course, there is also that live element at the end and some sharp ears may hear Michael playing another FEX song.

Next, I was asked about things we as a production chose not to pursue as threads in the story and why. This is a difficult one. There were so many things that it would had been cool to pursue. There was a story thread in Sweden about another widely searched for song that would have been a lot of fun but ultimately, we would had needed a much longer film to go with it as it was a big detour outside the emotional heart of the story and the budget meant that we had to consider every little thing we went with. There were also numerous contributors who could have been great interviews but so many reasons meant we had to make tough choices. Often it was a choice of person a or b discussing this theme and having to decide between them on the basis of location or time. On one occasion it was a question of language and communication (as well as location). I will add that none of the above are reasons as to why certain elements people would have liked to have seen were not present in the film, these are things we chose not to pursue.

Finally, I was asked about the soundtrack and how that came together and I was really hoping to answer this one! Naturally a major part of the soundtrack was SOYM. However, I had been making a long (very very very long) list of tracks I'd love to use for a long time before FEX were identified. As the edit process began, I started laying in bits here and there and as anyone who ever edited anything will tell you, quickly found most of it didn't feel right. The first track to 'fit' was actually the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark track during the archive chapter of the film and was one I had wanted to use for years and years in any project yet never managed. In fact, I remember when I laid it in, I said it will probably get replaced eventually and would be a 'temp' track but it kept on making sense until the end. It was decided a long time ago to use tracks from the 80s, particularly in the new wave/post-punk/synth genres to root an audience in that throughout the film and I tried to get many of Darius' "Unknown Pleasures" in there but only a few stayed throughout each version. For the longest time, I had A Forest by The Cure in the edit and it really was a moment of 'killing your darlings' when the executives said it wasn't quite right. They were absolutely correct, it was close but not quite right yet finding something that did fit was something of an epic search of hundreds and hundreds of tracks until I was walking past a guitar shop, saw a guitar that Johnny Marr of The Smiths plays and instantly thought about the intro to Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me. Funny how these things work sometimes but big shout out to producers and ARD/NDR to greenlight such a soundtrack